# Nicolaus Copernicus

> He put the Sun at the center and moved the Earth. That shift - published in 1543 as he was dying - cracked open the cosmos and set the Scientific Revolution in motion.

*Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/nicolaus-copernicus

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** 1473-02-19
- **Died:** 1543-05-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Copernicus was born in 1473 in Royal Prussia, a polyglot borderland between Poland and the Teutonic Order. He trained as a polymath: mathematician, astronomer, physician, canon lawyer, economist, translator. From 1497 he served as a cathedral canon in Warmia. In 1517 he derived a quantity theory of money; in 1519 he formulated what would later be called Gresham's law. But the work that mattered came quietly, over decades: a heliocentric model he likely developed independently, though a Greek astronomer named Aristarchus had sketched something similar eighteen centuries before. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium appeared in 1543, just before Copernicus died in May of that year. The book triggered the Copernican Revolution and became a founding text of modern science.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 85.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.4 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 29.8 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 10.4 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Astronomy, #Law, #Economics, #Mathematics, #Physics, #Philosophy

## Sources
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- [Nicolau Copérnico](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolau_Cop%C3%A9rnico)
- [尼古拉·哥白尼](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%BC%E5%8F%A4%E6%8B%89%C2%B7%E5%93%A5%E7%99%BD%E5%B0%BC)
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- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q619)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Nicolaus%20Copernicus)
- [निकोलस कोपरनिकस](https://awa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B8)
- [Mikołaj Kopernik](https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko%C5%82aj_Kopernik)
- [ኒኮላውስ ኮፐርኒኩስ](https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%92%E1%8A%AE%E1%88%8B%E1%8B%8D%E1%88%B5_%E1%8A%AE%E1%8D%90%E1%88%AD%E1%8A%92%E1%8A%A9%E1%88%B5)
- [নিক'লাচ ক'পাৰ্নিকাচ](https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95'%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9A_%E0%A6%95'%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9A)
- [Мікалай Капернік](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA)
- [Copérnico](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop%C3%A9rnico)
- [Nicolaus Copernicus](https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus)
- [Мікалай Капэрнік](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA)
- [Nicolaus Copernicus](https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus)
- [نيكولاوس كوبرنيكوس](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3)
- [Николай Коперник](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)
- [Nicolaus Copernicus](https://bi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus)
- [নিকোলাস কোপার্নিকাস](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8)
- [Nicolaus Copernicus](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus)
- [Wikiquote](https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikolay_Kopernik)
- [Wikiquote](https://bn.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8)
- [Николай Коперник](https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)

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